Search Processing Language Contracts in England

Search Processing Language (Splunk SPL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Search Processing Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Search Processing Language over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 513 572
Rank change year-on-year +16 +59 +194
Contract jobs citing Search Processing Language 5 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.045% 0.077%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 19
10th Percentile £540 £533 £530
25th Percentile £563 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £569 £640
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.13% +21.90%
75th Percentile £659 £606 £790
90th Percentile £699 £609 -
UK median daily rate £613 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +4.26% -6.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
England

Search Processing Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,028 10,579 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.69% 31.92% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,177 7,549 10,598
10th Percentile £345 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £688
90th Percentile £753 £788 £798
UK median daily rate £505 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 347 386
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £26.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.69 £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £60.11
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +8.14% +9.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.27 £79.50 £82.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%

Search Processing Language
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Search Processing Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Search Processing Language in England

Search Processing Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Search Processing Language in England.

Daily rate trend for Search Processing Language in England

Search Processing Language
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Search Processing Language within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +9 2 £600 -
Midlands -9 1 £625 - 1
North West -11 1 £600 +2.13% 1
North of England -23 1 £600 +2.13% 1
South East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £625 - 1
Search Processing Language
UK

Search Processing Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) GIAC
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft